The Diplomat
The president of the Progress Party of Equatorial Guinea, Armengol Engonga, has sent a letter to the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, in which he asks the UN not to recognise the results of the elections held in the African country on 20 November, considering that they were plagued with irregularities.
Engonga’s letter was sent a few days after the former Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Miguel Ángel Moratinos, current High Representative for the Alliance of Civilisations, a body dependent on the United Nations, assured in declarations to Guinean Television that the elections had been conducted in a fair and democratic manner.
Engonga himself responded to Moratinos’ statements, which he described as an “insult to intelligence”.
In his letter to Guterres, the opposition leader recalls that “no democratic country has taken the elections for granted”, in which, according to the data provided by the government, the president of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang, obtained more than 94% of the votes. And it adds: “we urge the United Nations not to recognise this result, as we understand that it has been yet another trick by the dictatorship to perpetuate itself in power”.
